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Original Nashville Students combined with Gideon's Big Minstrel Carnival

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Caption: I cert'nly is feelin right today.

Created and "copyright 1899 by The U.S. Printing Co., Russell-Morgan Print, Cincinnati & New York."

Direction, Rusco & Holland.

No. 4264.

Forms part of: Minstrel poster collection (Library of Congress)

The collection includes posters advertising individual plays and operettas, burlesque, vaudeville, and specialty acts, dance companies, extravaganzas produced by the Kiralfy Brothers, portraits of entertainers, and stock posters. Featured performers include Julia Arthur, De Wolfe Hopper, Joseph Hart Vaudeville Co., Thomas W. Keene, Andrew Mack, Robert B. Mantell, Mathews & Bulger, Lewis Morrison, Phil Sheridan's New City Sports Co., Royal Lilliputians, and Jennie Yeamans. Directors, managers, and producers include Edward J. Abraham, Blaney, and Vance, William A. Brady, Sidney R. Ellis, W.J. Fielding, Charles Frohman, Hoyt & McKee, the Kiralfy Brothers, Jacob Litt, Rice & Burton, Rich & Harris, A.Q. Scammon, Sam S. Schubert, Thall & Kennedy, Fred E. Wright, Charles H. Yale, and others. Playwrights include David Belasco, George H. Broadhurst, Bartley Campbell, Charles Turner Dazey, Gilbert & Sullivan, William Gillette, Seymour Hicks, David Higgins, Bronson Howard, Cecil Raleigh, William Shakespeare, Sutton Vane, and others. Plays include such popular titles as Arizona, At Piney Ridge, By the sad sea waves, Devil's auction, Evangeline, Faust, Female drummer, H.M.S. Pinafore, The hidden hand, The last of the Rohans, Ole Olson, The Queen of Chinatown, Shenandoah, Siberia, The sporting life, Uncle Tom's cabin, Venice, The war of wealth, Way down East, Yon Yonson, and others. Images depicted include scenes from plays, portraits of performers, and performers performing. Featured entertainers are not always depicted in the image. Some posters are mainly textual with peripheral images.

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01/01/1899
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U.S. Printing Co.
Gideon's Big Minstrel Carnival.
Nashville Students.
Rusco & Holland.
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Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)
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african americans performances and portrayals cigars dandies minstrel shows lithographs color theatrical posters american original nashville students original nashville students gideon big minstrel carnival poster art posters images black history month black history month prints 19th century posters posters performing arts posters american variety stage vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 1920 gideon big minstrel carnival nashville students rusco and holland us printing co performing arts posters advertisements free art posters library of congress vaudeville